Aggression in humans and other primates : biology, psychology, sociology

202 Pages·2013·8.15 MB·English

by  Heinze, Jürgen, Kortüm, Hans-Henning

Aggression in Humans and Other Primates
Edited by Hans-Henning Kortüm & Jürgen Heinze

Aggression in Humans
and Other Primates
Biology, Psychology, Sociology
Edited by Hans-Henning Kortüm & Jürgen Heinze
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Contents
Editors‘ Preface .................................................................................................... vii

List of Contributors ............................................................................................. ix

Aggression in Humans and Other Animals – A Biological Prelude ............ 1
    JÜRGEN HEINZE

Aggression/Violence in Humans and Other Primates –
A Historian’s Prelude ......................................................................................... 9
    HANS-HENNING KORTÜM

What Theoretical Biology has to say on Aggression in
Humans and Animals ........................................................................................ 23
    PETER HAMMERSTEIN

Aggression in Humans and Other Primates – Biology, Psychology,
Sociology .............................................................................................................. 41
    DIETMAR ZINNER AND BRANDON C. WHEELER

Explaining Aggression: The Ultimate-Proximate Problem ........................... 87
    CLAIRE EL MOUDEN

Human Sex Differences in Aggression from the Perspective of
Sexual Selection ................................................................................................... 101
    JOHN ARCHER

The Logic of Aggression – Reciprocal Altruism, Psychological Games
and the Persistence of Conflict .......................................................................... 121
    LUCIANO ANDREOZZI

What causes Large-Scale Variation in Homicide Rates? ............................... 137
    MANUEL EISNER

One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Violence, Uncertainty, and Safety ......... 163
    MANFRED J. HOLLER AND BARBARA KLOSE-ULLMANN

Index ..................................................................................................................... 181

Editors’ Preface
There is always much talking about cooperation among different disciplines,
but it does seldom happen. Especially the scientific dialogue between Natural
Sciences and Humanities is extremely difficult. The ways of thinking and argu-
ing are so different. Nevertheless, the editors of this book – a biologist and an
historian – are convinced that such a dialogue between different science cul-
tures could be possible and – what seems of even greater importance – could
be a fruitful one. As a step forward, they organised a symposium at the Uni-
versity of Regensburg in September 2011 in order to bring together scientists
belonging to different disciplines. The congress papers here collected are all
dealing with (in a biological understanding) aggression and (in a wider under-
standing) violence. Even if it seems too optimistic to think that a common theo-
ry could be formulated for such different sciences as Evolutionary Biology,
Neurobiology, Psychology, History, Criminology, Cultural Studies etc., the
editors believe in the existence of quite a lot of similarities in explaining and
understanding aggression and violence. This could further more cooperation in
the future.
We have to thank the Regensburger Universitätsstiftung for financial support,
Dr Stephanie Dawson and Julia Lauterbach (Publishing House DeGruyter) and
Katharina Fritsch (University of Regensburg) for all their support. Last but not
least, we have to thank our authors. Due to their readiness to give us their con-
ference papers in a short time after the conference, it was possible to publish
the book so quickly.

Regensburg, October 2012

Jürgen Heinze Hans-Henning Kortüm

List of Contributors
LUCIANO ANDREOZZI
Professor, Department of Economics at University of Trento.

JOHN ARCHER
Professor, School of Psychology at University of Central Lancashire.

MANUEL EISNER
Professor, Institute of Comparative & Developmental Criminology at Universi-
ty of Cambridge.

CLAIRE EL MOUDEN
Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow, Department of Zoology at Oxford Uni-
versity.

PETER HAMMERSTEIN
Professor, Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University Berlin.

JÜRGEN HEINZE
Professor, Institute of Zoology at University of Regensburg.

MANRED J. HOLLER
Professor (em.), Institute of Economics, at University of Hamburg.

BARBARA KLOSE-ULLMANN
Writer and Freelancer at an Academic Publisher, Munich.

HANS HENNING KORTÜM
Professor, Institute of History at University of Regensburg.

BRANDON C. WHEELER
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive Ethology Lab at German Primate Cen-
ter Göttingen.

DIETMAR ZINNER
Senior Scientist, Research Group Cognitive Ethology at German Primate Center
Göttingen.